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Welcome to the Podcast

TheĀ Broken to Beloved PodcastĀ is for anyone whoā€™s been affected by spiritual abuse, religious trauma, or church hurt and is looking for practical resources to move toward healing and wholeness.

Iā€™m your host, Brian Lee, and Iā€™m so excited to share these conversations with you.

I want this to be a place for deep and meaningful conversations around spiritual abuse and religious trauma. I want to provide you with language to name your experiences and validate your stories, and to give you practical tools that move you toward healing and wholeness.

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Recent Episodes & Show Notes

Episode 024: Our Values: Goodness over Wickedness with Brian Lee Nov 19, 2024

This the second episode in a short series on our values. You can listen to our first shared value, "Curiosity over Certainty" in Episode 20 here.

By choosing goodness over wickedness, we...

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Episode 022: Creating and Validating a Spiritual Abuse Assessment Nov 05, 2024

Can you really ever know when you’ve experienced spiritual abuse by church leaders and organizations? Victims and survivors are so often manipulated and gaslit that they question their own...

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Episode 15: Healing What's Within through Curiosity and Connection with Chuck DeGroat Sep 24, 2024

Trauma fundamentally disconnects us.

It can disconnect our brains from our bodies. It can sever relationships and entire communities. Those of us familiar with trauma know it can have a real impact...

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Episode 14: Meet the Board: Healing and Hope after Spiritual Abuse with Kat Wilkins Sep 17, 2024

In this short series, you’ll get to meet each of our board members.

Listen to their stories and backgrounds, and why they chose to serve on the board and support the work at Broken to...

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Episode 13: Finding Hope in the Goodness (tov) of God with Laura Barringer Sep 10, 2024

In this short series, you’ll get to meet each of our board members.

Listen to their stories and backgrounds, and why they chose to serve on the board and support the work at Broken to...

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Episode 10: A New Look at Fawning and our Survival Strategies with Aundi Kolber Sep 03, 2024

Most of us are familiar with fight, flight, and freeze. "Fawn"" may be a newer one for many of us. I first learned about the fawn response from Aundi’s incredible book, Try Softer. She...

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